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ONE OF A KIND
Jeff Bezos, Michelle Williams and Matt Damon.
“Our vision is to be the world’s most consumer-
centric company, where customers can come to
find anything-thJeefyf wBaeznotsto buy online.”
B etween Amazon, Bezos Foundation which his parents run.
Expeditions and Bezos’ personal Bezos was Time magazine’s Person of the Year in
investments, his reach is 1999 and in 2012, he was named Businessperson
omnipresent. He was an angel of The Year by Fortune. According to Forbes,
investor in Google in 1998 and bought The Bezos is actively vying with Bill Gates for the
Washington Post and other publications number one position of wealthiest person
affiliated with its parent company in 2013. Over in the world since Amazon´s acquisition of
the years, his capital ventures have put money Whole Foods in July of 2017.
into, among many others: Airbnb, Crowdrise, For Bezos the secret formula is entirely about
Domo, Juno Therapeutics, MakerBot knowing what the customer wants, listening to
Industries, Rethink Robotics, Skytap, Twitter, the customer and then finding a way to provide
Uber and the headline-maker Whole Foods, it while not relying on other people to create
which he acquired for $13.7 billion in 2017. the market for you.
As the largest e-retailer in the world, and now “If you do build a great experience,
He is the founder of Blue Origin, an in brick-and-mortar stores as well, it is safe to customers tell each other about that.
aerospace company that is competing with say the results speak for themselves.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Equally far-reaching Word of mouth is very powerful."
are his philanthropic, mostly educational
projects, channeled through the Bezos Family – Jeff Bezos
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